Democrat hypocrisy on bombing should be no surprise

Senator Joe Biden said in November, 2007 that if Bush decided to bomb Iran, he would initiate impeachment charges.

“The President has no authority to unilaterally attack Iran and … if he does, as chairman of the foreign relations committee and former chairman of judiciary, I will move to impeach him.”

Apparently Biden considered a Republican occupying the White House as the impeachable offense.

What would be the difference between Bush bombing Iran and Obama bombing Libya? Iran’s leadership was developing a nuclear weapons program, calls us the “Great Satan,” seeks our destruction, and even wants to bring about the apocalypse. Although a bombing campaign may not have been our best strategic option, Iran clearly threatened our national security.

Libya, meanwhile, is supposedly a humanitarian mission. At least as humanitarian as dropping bombs on people can be.

Coupled with then-Senator Obama saying (also in 2007) that a bombing campaign in Iran would be unconstitutional, this just shows that the Democrat Party’s leadership is only concerned with power. The Constitution is whatever they need it to be: bombing a country that wants to destroy the U.S. is unconstitutional while bombing one that doesn’t is constitutional. They will attack, undermine, and even impeach anyone who gets in their way.

It is futile to expect consistency from Biden and Obama in their foreign policy, so we are just stuck with this White House until 2013. Perhaps then we can chose leaders who are more interested in upholding and defending the Constitution and protecting the American people than they are with gaining power at any cost.